Your blogger wikileaked

When during the Watergate hearings it was revealed that in 1971 aides to US President Richard Nixon drafted an ‘enemies list’, it became a source of personal pride to many of those who were on it that they had been thus recognised; and indeed it became a matter of anguish to some who had not been included.

Now that a fair number of WikiLeaks cables relating to Ireland have been published, it would perhaps be a matter of concern if one made no appearance in any of them. I am happy to say that I do get a mention, in this document published by the Guardian (if you go to point 11).

Acuurate-ish. I said at the encounter that entrepreneurship was about creativity, and it shared that with poetry and art. I said that these could not be taught in so far as they relied on talent, but could be nurtured through teaching and learning.

I’m disappointed! There’s not a single insult in the comments about you. No references to an authoritatian style, or accusations of being sycophantic, or yet even that you’re an emperor with no clothes or – horror of horrors, apparently you don’t enjoy wild parties!

Seriously, this is my main problem with Wikileaks: is there anything at all in the leak you linked to that could remotely be considered whistleblowing? It’s pure gossip, and barely even interesting gossip at that.